James Linscott burned, blinded allegedly by Roland Dow

The New Hampshire couple wanted in connection with the abuse of a young boy who was dropped off at a hospital last week, blinded, burned and beaten, may have been spotted in Lynn Wednesday evening.

A caller told police that the two individuals they spotted near the Honey Dew at 1067 Western Ave.. resembled Jessica Linscott and Roland Dow. Investigators said they are not sure if it was the couple.

County Attorney Jim Reams filed two first-degree assault charges Wednesday against Dow and six counts of child endangerment against Linscott earlier Wednesday.

"We believe they are still in the southern New Hampshire or northern Massachusetts area," said Reams.

But even if "they are in California, they will be found and returned," he said.

Reams urged the couple "to surrender and do this the easy way."

Police in New Hampshire and Massachusetts have been looking for the Plaistow, N.H., pair after Linscott's 3-year-old son, James, was brought to Exeter Hospital one week ago with extensive injuries.

On Tuesday, Haverhill police descended on a building on Nichols Street after getting credible tips that Linscott and Dow were spotted in the city.

"We searched the building that they were supposed to be in and they were not in there," Haverhill Police Department Capt. Alan Ratte said.

The boy remains hospitalized with bruises over much of his body, second- and third-degree burns and a head injury so severe it is impacting his sight.

Reams said James was improving and was now in stable, but serious condition.

The boy's paternal grandmother, Helen Nicholson, said her grandson is improving and is out of intensive care. Nicholson's son, Jonathan, was James' father. He died of a drug overdose when the boy was 3 months old.

"The last time the baby told me that Roland hit him, I told Jessica: 'You better not bring him back to Roland's house. There will be a problem because he is horrified,'" she said.

Reams cautioned that anyone who is helping or harboring the pair, faces prosecution as well.

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